Ahh, I see you’re a Trump kid. I’m afraid I can’t just give you this candy as a handout; that would be some commie socialist shit. Instead, I’m going to have to ask you to walk a couple thousand miles in the sweltering heat, then swim across this river that’s been strung with razor wire, then climb over this 20-foot wall, not get spotted by border patrol, thermal imaging, dogs, etc. Once you’ve made it through all that, I’m gonna need you to work a minimum-wage job for twenty years while you contribute to the social security fund that you’re ineligible to receive, and once you pass your citizenship test, I’ll let you have a piece of candy. But I’ll also spit in your face. We have standards.

There’s always a first…

My home value hasn’t started falling yet, according to Zillow, but the appreciation seems to have leveled off.

Do their respective views on the quality of their Teslas correlate to their views on Musk?

That cat is named Maru, and he has a very well documented affinity for boxes.

Coming soon to a Supreme Court near you:

“It is this Court’s opinion that this rule infringes on businesses’ First Amendment right to free speech.”

To be fair, growling (along with shaking with pure hatred) is the natural state of a Chihuahua.

The system is working as intended.

The car itself should never come with something that will require recurring payments.

Cars already do. Satellite radio has been a thing for decades now. I’ve never used it. Never felt the desire to use it. I haven’t even taken the free trial. I’m less annoyed that it exists, and more annoyed that I’m forever fated to receive unsolicited junk mail for this feature that I have to unceremoniously dump in the recycling bin every couple weeks.

As for the remote start, yeah, it’s kinda bullshit that they’ve removed the more permanent, older version of a feature to replace it with something out of the owners’ control. If anything, it should exist in parallel with the key fob button, not replace it entirely. I’m less concerned about the fact that it’s a subscription than I am about the prospect of that feature dropping support down the road with no recourse for the owner.

As a hobbyist with no production-environment or critical coding projects, Google Gemini has been great for generating a starting point for Arduino projects if I otherwise don’t know how to get going.

Neat!

This doesn’t make sense to me. The iris doesn’t collect light for vision. The pupil expands or contracts to vary the amount of light that reaches the retina. Iris color should have nothing to do with it.

A couple of Gs, an R and an E, an I and an N.

https://youtu.be/KVN_0qvuhhw?si=PNEQ5t-Urk5T3Ykz

Makes specific mention of notably-colored ass and balls, shows no pictures of monkey’s backside…

I think I had a lightweight ROM on it, but it’s not worth investigating at this point.

Was yours the first or second gen?

I booted up my first gen a couple months back and it was painfully slow. Not just slow in comparison to a modern device, just unusably slow.

Just a guess, but maybe they use AI to compare the live person’s face to the photo on the ID to verify. Of course if they’re comparing to the printed photo and not to a database photo linked to the ID, then the whole purpose of the machine is ill-conceived, as it could be bypassed with a fake ID.

I wasn’t aware of swipe down. Not sure if it was added later or I just missed it.

It’s still there, and not because my phone is slow - even a brand new Pixel with no apps or Google account has this delay. It takes nearly 2 seconds to go home - long enough to make me question if I hit the home button.

Pixel 6 Pro, in use since release… I don’t have any noticeable delay. Pressing the home button (I have 3-button navigation instead of gestures), the transition from foreground app to Nova home screen I’d estimate to be under 1/4 second. Feels pretty instantaneous.